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Microsoft PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys 0.83.0

  -  25.8 MB  -  Freeware

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

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What's new in this version:

Highlights:
- Awake Quality of Life changes, including changing the tray icon to reflect the current mode

- Changes to general GPO policies and new policies for Mouse Without Borders. The names for some intune policy configuration sets might need to be updated

General:
- Reordered GPO policies, making it easier to find some policies

Advanced Paste:
- Fixed CSV parser to support double quotes and escape delimiters when pasting as JSON
- Improved double quote handling in the CSV parser when pasting as JSON

Awake:
- Different modes will now show different icons in the system tray
- Removed the dependency on Windows Forms and used native Win32 APIs instead for the tray icon
- Fixed an issue where the UI would become non-responsive after selecting no time for the timed mode
- Refactored code for easier maintenance
- The tray icon will now be shown when running Awake standalone to signal mode
- The tray icon tooltip shows how much time is left on the timer
- Added DPI awareness to the tray icon context menu

Color Picker:
- Added support to using the mouse wheel to scroll through the color history

File Explorer add-ons:
- Allow copying from the right-click menu in Monaco and Markdown previewers

File Locksmith:
- Fixed a crash when there were a big number of entries being shown by moving the opened files of a process to another dialog

Installer:
- Fixed the path where DSC module files were installed for the user-scope installer. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)

Mouse Without Borders:
- Disabled non supported options in the old Mouse Without Borders UI
- Added new GPO policies to control the use of some features

Peek:
- Allow copying from the right-click menu in Dev files and Markdown previews

PowerToys Run:
- Fixed a crash on Windows 11 build 22000. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
- Blocked a transparency fix code from running on Windows 10, since it was causing graphical glitches. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
- Accept speed abbreviations like kilometers per hour (kmph) in the Unit Converter plugin
- Added settings to configure behavior of the "First week of year" and "First day of week" calculations in the DateTime plugin
- Fixed wrong initial position of the PowerToys Run when switching between monitors with different dpi values
- Started allowing interchangeable use of / and in the registry plugin paths
- Added support to automatic sign-in after rebooting with the System plugin
- Added suggested use example results to the Value Generator plugin

Quick Accent:
- Added support for the Bulgarian character set

Runner:
- Add code to handle release tags with an upper V when trying to detect new updates

Settings:
- Fixed the UI spacing in the "update available" card
- Fixed the information bars in the Mouse Without Borders settings page to hide when the module is disabled
- Improved consistency of the icons used in the Mouse Without Borders settings page
- Improved action keyword information bar padding in the PowerToys Run plugins section
- Fixed a crash in the dashboard when Keyboard Manager Editor settings file became locked.

Documentation:
- Added the RDP plugin to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs
- Added the GitHubRepo and ProcessKiller plugins to PowerToys Run thirdPartyRunPlugins.md docs
- Fixed a typo in the 0.82.0 release notes in README

Development:
- Disabled FancyZone UI tests, to unblock PRs. We plan to bring them back in the future. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
- Fixed an issue where flakiness in CI was causing the installer custom actions DLL from being signed. (This was a hotfix for 0.82)
- Upgraded the Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility dependency to 8.0.7
- Upgraded the System.Text.Json dependency to 8.0.4
- Upgraded the Microsoft.Data.Sqlite dependency to 8.0.7
- Upgraded the MSBuildCache dependency to 0.1.283-preview
- Removed an unneeded /Zm compiler flag from Keyboard Manager Editor common build flags
- Fixed the winget publish action to handle upper case V in the tag name
- Removed wildcard items from vcxproj files
- Removed the similar issues bot GitHub actions
- Fixed CODEOWNERS to better protect changes in some files
- Switched machines being used in CI and pointed status badges in README to the new machines
- Fixed NU1503 build warnings when building PowerToys
- Use the MSTest meta dependency for running the tests instead of the individual testing packages
- Added missing CppWinRT references